Don’t count Nokia out yet is the message to take away this week. We just got video overview of the Finnish company’s upcoming N900 handset, and it looks like it lives up to the expectations set by yesterday’s Maemo 5 UI promo video. You can find the specs of the phone here, and those make the whole proposition even sexier. Some of the more notable features are the slide-out keyboard along with a full touchscreen keyboard, 800 x 480 screen, which gives it a 16:9 aspect ratio, PDF reader, and 32 GB of internal storage. And that’s not to mention the camera. It’s 5 MP and has a Carl Zeiss lens, along with a dual LED flash. Oh, and there’s autofocus and digital zoom.
But from the looks of this, Nokia is shaping up to reclaim the smartphone market. They’re doing something with Maemo that iPhone and Android have yet to do: they’re basically selling you a little computer. This thing has desktops and file management a la Windows. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if the phone had Flash out of the box (fingers crossed). If anyone from Nokia is reading this, please send me a review unit.
Update: I thought I should just add that yes, the Maemo operating system supports Flash. Not sure about Silverlight, but I know for a fact that we could all be watching Hulu and Homestar Runner while in transit very soon.
